Anyang didn't want to drink the remaining half of the pot of wine, so he got up and settled the bill, and walked out.

Although the information learned from Duan Xiaoxiao is detailed, it is not comprehensive enough after all. Without proof, it is difficult to distinguish any biased refutation errors, so he still needs to verify it from multiple sources!

Just after walking out of the tavern, he happened to meet Xuanzang walking on the street with a look of dismay.

Xuanzang himself did not pay attention to appearance, dressed in a tattered manner, and his head was dirty. At this time, his eyes were dull and he walked on the street step by step like he had lost his soul, becoming more and more like a beggar.

Suddenly, he also saw Anyang.

The two of them looked at each other and stopped.

Anyang was just a little stunned, and soon came to his senses, walked forward with a smile and said, "Master Xuanzang, are you here now?"

Xuanzang was stunned for a long time, but his eyes finally became a little brighter. He first put his hands together and said, "Xuanzang has not yet been slandered, nor has he achieved any achievements in Buddhism. He is still a student and cannot deserve the title of Master."

After pausing, he continued to whisper: "It was the gentleman and the lady who walked too fast. According to the normal journey, it would take an hour and a half to go from the fishing village to the town."

Anyang smiled and did not engage in more entanglement on this issue. He also clasped his hands together and said, "I have something to deal with. Master Xuanzang will do it if you have something to do. Let's leave here. The green mountains will not change and the green water will flow forever. If you are destined, you will see you again!"

Xuanzang nodded silently and turned sideways to make way.

But in fact, the road is very wide, so it doesn’t matter whether he lets him or not. If you come to ten Anyangs, you can walk over with your shoulders.

Anyang also nodded at him with a smile, passed by him, and walked towards the bustling crowd.

Xuanzang looked at his back silently, feeling depressed, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, he reached out and called Anyang.

"Wait a moment!"

"Hmm?" Anyang turned around, ten meters away from Xuanzang, and smiled slightly, "What advice does Master Xuanzang have?"

"Sir, your surname is?"

"Don't let your surname be safe."

"Mr. An, right? I'm very happy to know you." Xuanzang nodded, wanted to speak but stopped, and withdrew his gaze, "My secular surname is Chen, and my name is Xuanzang."

"I know."

"Yes." Xuanzang nodded slightly again.

Anyang smiled, said nothing, and turned around and left.

As he expected, Xuanzang, who had just stopped talking, called him again: "Mr. An!"

Anyang turned around and looked at him faintly.

Xuanzang made up his mind and walked towards him, stopped in front of him and looked at him, opening his mouth slightly, but he didn't know what to say.

So the two looked at each other and became silent.

There are people coming and going on the street. Anyang is not handsome, but his face is hard and his temperament is calm and outstanding. Xuanzang's facial features on the opposite side are also elegant and beautiful, and they all have a considerable attraction.

A middle-aged woman walked by, glanced at them, and immediately showed a disgusting expression, speeding up her departure.

Seeing this, several young women pointed and whispered something in a low voice, and suddenly burst into laughter like silver. It was like the sound of a row of wishing signs hanging from the eaves of the Wishing Building.

When Anyang saw Xuanzang lowering his head, he didn't look at him at all. He asked for it himself, and his doubts and even his indifferent eyes were useless. He had to speak helplessly: "Master Xuanzang seems to have something to do. He has thought about it all the way, and he has been holding it all the way. Do you have anything you want to say to me or ask me?"

Xuanzang was silent for a moment and finally said, "Is what the lady said today true? You have been in the fishing village for a long time, but you are reluctant to save me when I die?"

Anyang smiled and asked, "What made you ask such a question? We didn't know each other before, and Miss Duan has already made the facts very clear, and I think you still have the intention to defend me..."

"When I was about to leave the fishing village, I met a four or five-year-old girl licking candy. She said you are not a bad person, and she also said you are her friend." Xuanzang then raised his head and stared at him with a bright look, "Mr. An is very capable. If I guess correctly, Luo Er will be saved, right?"

Thinking of the little girl, Anyang's smile gradually closed and said lightly: "What do you want to say?"

"Mr. An is not a cold-blooded person, nor is he stubborn about what Mr. An mentioned. Why is he unwilling to rescue the remaining people together?" Xuanzang asked staring at him.

"Save!" An Yang smiled contemptuously, "Buddhism teaches you to save the world and help others, but it has never taught you to save everyone you see. If everyone saves you, why don't the monk go to the Dharma field to rob you? People in the Dharma field will lose their heads every day! How pitiful..."

"The government has its own decision!"

"Since the master knows that Buddhism cannot override secular laws, he should also know that everything is right and wrong. Even if the master insists on saving people, there are also right and wrong. If he saves people who should not be saved, he will kill more people!" Anyang said, "Who beat a kind person to death and throw it into the river? Because the fishing village is far away, the law will not punish the people and go freely. But what about the people who are killed by them? Will they die in vain?"

"Can Buddhism change the theorem of killing people and paying for life?"

"But they are also a group of innocent people. They just killed that gentleman by mistake..."

"For them, it was a mistake to kill. For the water demon's previous life, he did a good deed but was beaten to death by a group of people indiscriminately. He threw the corpse into the river and suffered from fish and insects. He had no complete corpse to die! Is he willing?"

"But he is dead, and he can't be resurrected!"

"He can take revenge, be at ease, be reincarnation, and be able to stop resentment and enter the cycle of reincarnation. Furthermore, no matter what, the villagers should be punished. It is not that the wizard says a few words or that the deceased has passed away, they can escape for granted! At most, they will only give them a greater punishment!"

Anyang looked at Xuanzang's eyes and said, "The master has been studying Buddhism for many years, but he still doesn't understand. If the world is as the master said, the murderer is free from justice and does not pay for his capital if he does something wrong, everything will follow the master's thoughts, the world will be in chaos!"

Xuanzang was stunned. He was not practicing deeply now, and he was speechless after just a few words.

"You can't do good deeds and virtues blindly, and you can't do it just by your own heart. Otherwise, in the end, you will have a clear mind, but you will be disturbed by the world and will be disturbed by you! This is even more true for you," An Yang said to Xuanzang with a calm face, "Those who have not achieved success in practicing Buddhism love to spread mercy and save people everywhere, knowing that it is not the reason, and not knowing what you are doing!"

"So..." Xuanzang murmured, slightly raised his eyelids, lowered his head and said, "Please give me some advice."

"Let's talk about it in another place."

"yes."

The two found another place and sat down to have tea.

"I'm not to be hiding Mr. An, I've been an orphan since I was a child and raised by my master. I used to listen to my master's teachings for twenty years, but if I understand, this is the first time I have heard such a high opinion."

Anyang took a sip of tea ceremony: "Not everyone deserves to die, nor do anyone deserves to save it. There are laws in the world and laws in nature. This is by no means that Buddhism can interfere with! Sometimes when encountering natural things, it will make it develop naturally. This is the way to follow the laws of heaven, rather than just looking at the small things in front of you, but ignoring the overall situation, the overall situation and the impact of this matter on the whole world!"

Xuanzang was silent for a long time before saying, "Master once asked me before, if I met a wolf hunting and killing a lamb on the grassland, the lamb screamed miserably and the ewes cried endlessly, and asked me how to do it. I said, I want to save the two sheep. The master said I was stupid and said that I had been practicing Mahayana Buddhism for many years, but I learned the idea of ​​Hinayana Buddhism!"

"Do you understand now?"

"Mr. An explains, I know a little bit." Xuanzang said softly, folding his hands together and lowering his head deeply at him. "Wolfs eat sheep is the nature of a wolf, just like a sheep eating grass. If she saves a sheep, it will kill the wolf and destroy the balance of the grassland."

"You have a very high understanding!"

"The Master said the same thing, he said I can change the world."

"You have an extraordinary identity."

"I don't think I'm extraordinary, nor do I think I can change the world. I'm just an ordinary person."

"You're only a little bit."

"Master often says this."

"You will achieve it."

"I was thinking before, why can Miss Duan use violent means to drive away demons and save so many villagers, but I tried to awaken the truth, goodness and beauty in the monsters with my sincerity but it was counterproductive? Is my method useless at all?"

"What did you come up with?"

"I didn't think of it." Xuanzang shook his head, "Later, after hearing Mr. An's words, I walked along the way and thought, are those dead villagers really deserved the crime? The mistakes they made did not seem to be big, and the water demon died without making any mistakes. What is fooling the people in this world?"

"They are not wrong. The world is wrong, and no one is fooling them. They are foolish themselves. If they have to say that someone fools them, then they fool the whole world."

Xuanzang was silent for a long time before saying, "If one day I have the ability, I must change the world!"

"You will do it." Anyang said, "But I hope you can remember a little bit by the time. There are not only Buddhism in the world, but Buddhism is not everything, and it cannot surpass everything. Everything has two sides, with meticulous and omissions. Buddhism can make the world a better place, but you cannot and cannot make the world only Buddhism. Perhaps, the Buddhist teachings you pursue throughout your life are not as great as you imagined!"

After hearing this, Xuanzang looked at him in a daze, unable to speak.

Seeing that he didn't understand much, Anyang said again: "When you think something is big, it must be your own shortcomings. When you see that Buddhism is actually not omnipotent, or even very limited, you have truly understood what Buddhism is in a broad sense!"

"I... remember."

"Just remember, you will understand in the future."

After that, Xuanzang became a little absent-minded, as if he had been thinking about what he meant just now.

For ordinary people, when practicing Buddhism since childhood, Buddhism is everything about them, and it is the greatest thing in their hearts. If someone talks about the shortcomings of Buddhism, it is wrong, they must go up and argue with them.

But the reason why Xuanzang was Xuanzang was not because of his merits in his previous life, but because he was very good at thinking.

Besides, Anyang is right. After all, he is standing in the lower reaches of the long river of time, and can look at the past and sum up the experiences of his predecessors. He naturally sees much more clearly than Xuanzang.

Religion is great, but the great thing lies in human nature. Human beings themselves need such a thing. In addition, most religions often have a long history, and when people talk about it, they add a lot of awe. But if they really want to talk about the profound concepts of major religions with a rigorous academic attitude, then the believers will say: You are insulting us!

Human civilization is constantly improving, and religious concepts are optimized and reformed from generation to generation. But I’m sorry, many religious concepts are still gradually lagging behind the times. Not only is it difficult to find advanced points, but there are even contradictory places within!

In comparison, Ma Yuan is more profound and much greater!

The two chatted a lot again, mostly Xuanzang expressed his ideological understanding, Anyang agreed a little, refuted a little, and then denied a little.

For example, Xuanzang likes to emphasize "the original nature of human beings is good", Anyang pointed to the West very simply and said: "In the West, there is another land with many people living in blond hair and blue eyes, and we have business dealings with them. They have also had many empires that are not inferior to the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and have religions that are more widely spread than the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism and believers. They also experienced thousands of years of history, and their glorious decline, and they are not worse than ours..."

"And what they believe in is the evil nature of human beings!"

"The nature of human beings is evil?" Xuanzang was shocked and opened his eyes wide. But unlike ordinary people, he did not focus on "the empire that can be compared with the heavenly kingdom and the religion of Buddhism and Taoism". "How can babies be evil if they don't understand the truth?"

"Then he doesn't understand the truth, so how can he be good?"

"It's reasonable, it's reasonable." This originally involved extremely complex cultural differences, but Xuanzang just thought about it and got the key point, "Babys have no good or evil, they can be good or evil. We think that life is a process of learning evil, but they think that people are constantly learning well throughout their lives, which is a difference in their thoughts..."

"yes."

As soon as the two chatted, they chatted until late at night.

It is true that Anyang knew that the Tang Empire did not advocate Buddhism, but instead designated Taoism as the state religion. A large part of the reason why Buddhism really revived was Xuanzang.

And it is the Buddhist that modern people seem to be gentle and harmless. Whenever they are prosperous, they will shake the regime. In ancient times, they have disrupted the world many times and aroused dissatisfaction of the rulers. So a movement that destroys the Buddha happened again and again. However, this movement that sounds very domineering and even has a magical smell will be bloody suppression and a ruthless massacre whenever it is launched!

He really couldn't bear it. If possible, he wouldn't mind saying a few more words to let Buddhism enter a gentle state earlier, rather than waiting until it was massacred by the rulers to wake up again and again.

Xuanzang left at midnight.

He said that there were great demons in Gaolaozhuang, and asked Anyang to go to subdue demons with him, but Anyang refused.
Chapter completed!